Personal
I
moved from my childhood home into a flat with my little sister.
I did
a week’s work experience on the features desk of The Times newspaper.
I went
to lots of gigs:
- Fall
Out Boy (support: New
Politics, The Pretty Reckless)
- You
Me At Six
(support: Young Kato, Don Broco)
- Deaf
Havana (support: The
People the Poet, The Maine)
- The
Summer Set
(support: Paradise Fears, William Beckett)
- Blink
182
(support: Neck
Deep)
- Black
Veil Brides (support: Drama Club, Fearless
Vampire Killers, Attila)
- The
Maine (support:
Lydia, Nick Santino)
- We
Are the Ocean (support: Boy Jumps Ship,
Decade)
- Kids
in Glass Houses
(support: Save Your Breath)
- Framing
Hanley (support:
Reaper in Sicily, Hours)
- Bring
Me the Horizon (support:
Issues, Sleepwave, Young Guns)
I got
my first tattoo at Broad Street Studios in Bath (highly recommended).
I saw
some musicals:
- Once:
The Musical at Phoenix Theatre
- Avenue
Q
at The Hawth
(for the third time...)
- Wicked
at Apollo
Theatre (for the second time...)
I saw
a pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, on Christmas Eve at The Hawth in Crawley. The
best I’ve ever seen!
I went
to my first spoken word event, Mark Grist’s Rogue Teacher.
I
spent a week on the Greek island of Thassos.
I went
scuba diving. I hated it. A lot.
Bookish
I
celebrated my fifth blogoversary.
Meg
Cabot followed me on Twitter (I had a full-blown freak out).
I was
invited to an advance blogger screening of The
Fault in Our Stars in Covent Garden.
I got
my quote about Orange
is the New Black published on an inside back
cover ad in Stylist magazine and they
sent me an amazing thank you goody bag.
I got
to go to YALC!
I met
Scott Westerfeld – a longtime favourite author.
I
started 22
new series’.
I read
22
debut novels.
I read
9
dystopias, 55 contemporaries, 36 UKYA novels, 5 historical novels, 13 LGBT
novels and 4
classics.
All
together, I read 137 books.
Sophie
